• melfie@lemy.lol
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    3 hours ago

    I can’t really disagree. Sabine is right that they’re similar situations on the surface in that the both represent large investments for extremely incremental gains, but AI takes the cost and grift to a whole different level while offering gains that have laughable value in comparison to even a single small step forward in our understanding of fundamental physics.